[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

I don't know much about fracking, but it seems it is 'bad' enough to gain a lot of environmentalists' interests.

Here is a documentary on this that I keep meaning to watch (I think they are coming out with #2).



There will always be people on both sides of the argument. Both will accuse either side of lying and making up their own facts to support their arguments.

We live in Canada and sometimes smugly look down on our American neighbors and see how things there can often be 'bought' by lobbyists for pushing what the big corporations want to do. However, it also does happen here in Canada. Canada also has a track record of putting the $$$ in front of not only the environment, but also the health of its' people.

I remember watching a documentary years ago on the oilsands up north, about a Native population that live along the Athabasca river. That community had something like 400 or 500x the rate of cancer - young people started dying from cancer. They blamed the oil companies, and the government sent out their environmental scientist. He measured a number of things (including the Athabasca) and concluded everything was at safe levels. Tribe didn't buy it, and hired their own environmental scientist. He said: "Don't drink the water, don't eat the fish." Turned out it was highly toxic.

What side do you believe? People need to protest things at times, as it is the only way to at least get their voices heard.

Most of what you just said is not true.